The Book Of Vows: The Mahabharata Trilogy Volume 1

A lyrical kaleidoscope with many colours and prisms… BIBEK DEBROY
Majmudars prose reads like verses, beautifully structured, using a fewer number of words to convey a complex range of emotions FINANCIAL EXPRESS
A princess makes love to the sun. An old man is so shot through with arrows, he tips over but doesnt touch the ground. A hundred foetuses incubate in jars of ghee. A woman, with skin stained charcoal-black from the fire that birthed her, swears not to tie up her blue hair until her five husbands kill the men who wronged her.
Stories like these comprise the bloodiest, most mystical epic of all time: the Mahabharata. With brisk pacing and vivid language, Amit Majmudar gives new life to these well-known tales -while keeping you on the edge of your seat.
The Book of Vows, the first volume of the Mahabharata trilogy, follows the epic from the fateful meeting between a king and a fisherwoman to the catastrophic gambling match between warring cousins. Grounded in the ancient Sanskrit epic, this lively, contemporary retelling is unputdownable.
Cover art by Shamanthi Rajasingham Cover design by Ahlawat Gunjan